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January world BT news round up...

  • Friday, 30 January 2009 00:00
  • Last Updated Friday, 30 January 2009 22:10

In future, news stories from around the world on brain tumours will be posted as and when they happen but just for January here is the months news...

January 12th 2009 - Gene therapy eliminates brain tumors through selective recruitment of immune cells (www.virtualtrials.com)

 

January 20th 2009 - Veteran US Senator Ted Kennedy is released from hospital after suffering a seizure at Barack Obama's inauguration lunch (BBC news)

 

January 21st 2009 - Seve Ballesteros describes his progress as "quite good" after his first course of chemotherapy following surgery on a brain tumour (BBC news)

 

January 22nd 2009 - NOVEL DEVICE SHOWN TO BENEFIT SURVIVAL FOR BRAIN CANCER PATIENTS WHEN COMBINED WITH CHEMOTHERAPY (www.virtualtrials.com)

 

January 27th 2009 - People with a particular gene variant may be more likely to develop brain tumors, and at an earlier age, than people without the gene, according to a study published in the January 27, 2009, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology (www.sciencedaily.com)